Solo Dining!

Fred asks the crew if they're afraid to dine out alone!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you want if you have an issue or a phobia
or anything with Yeah, well and then then here's a
song and then we'll go back and do it with
eating out by yourself.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
No, you don't have a problem with her. You won't
do it. Oh, I don't have a problem with it.
I'm gonna say what which which no.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Question?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're like, no, is that no I don't care? Or
no I won't do it? So that's a no, you
don't care. I don't care. So you'll go to a
restaurant and you'll just you'll go into Chili's and you'll
say table for one. Yeah, yeah, No.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
I mean I'll be on like Instagram live but yesable
for one.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh you're one of those. Yes, So you'll sit there
and do a live in the middle of the restaurant
to my friends. Yeah, now, could you do it without
your phone?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Why would I do that? Am doing just looking at
the margarita pelling? But could you do it without talking
to anyone?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Like?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Could you walk into the chilies the said chilis and
say table for one and have a seed and then
just sort of sit back And I mean, I don't,
I don't. I don't have to be talking to someone.
I don't have to be on the phone. I probably
shouldn't be. It's a restaurant. Oh wait a minute, what
I don't think you need to be. I don't think
you should be talking on the phone to people at
a table in the restaurant by yourself. Yeah, yeah, I

(01:13):
hear you. I don't know. I don't, I don't. I
don't usually see people talking on the phone in restaurants, okay,
certainly not doing full on lives with their tripod and
their lighting system. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I
guess if you're by yourself, who cares. But if I say,
someone just sitting there in a booth by the on
the phone by themselves, I think it would be kind

(01:33):
of strange.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
I think it depends on it's on the speaker phone,
Like I don't want to have to hear your whole conversation,
you know. But I guess if you just have your
AirPod in, like, yeah, I don't know someone on the phone,
it's probably if you're by yourself, then I guess it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah, I mean, becauess you'd be talking to someone at
the table. I guess I don't know something about the
phone in public that this is a little rude to me.
I don't know, why would you do it, Caitlin, walk in,
have a seat, just the whole experience all by yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I don't prefer it, but yes I would. But you
know me, i'd sit at the bar and talk to them.
You know all the bar fly.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Seems to be a hotel bar bartender.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, or just a professional bar goer at hotels.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Okay, well, then well the bartender would be the way
to accomplish it. I think it was a professional barger.
I think it's a bartender because you're professionals. You're getting
paid in your bar goer. Well I want to sit
and drink. Yeah, then that then you're not gonna like
a's a bartender. Yeah, you wouldn't have Mary, I wouldn't
fire you quickly. Yeah, Jason, you know no, I could

(02:32):
not do that.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
I have gone places and eating inside like if I
don't have a server, like if it's like a place
where you go and you order at the register and
then get your food in link. But for me, it's
like sitting down and like I think also to like
working in the service industry, you're like, oh, this one
person is taking up my table A four.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, I guess, but that's better not going at all
like this because I'm going to tip you. I mean,
you're right, the tab is going to be less. But yeah,
I think about that sometimes. Can I do it all
the time? I have no only with it. I'm traveling,
I just go to restaurant restaurant, so well I suppose, yeah,
but I I yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
There are people that are not Yeah, so you know
that's where I got to say at the bar, yeah,
I think there you go.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Would you do it? No? No.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
So I'm trying to conquer my fears in twenty twenty five,
even though we're almost done with the air so one
of my fears was to eat alone at a restaurant,
like go to a restaurants take over one.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yes, it absolutely is a.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Fear for me, and not because like it doesn't you
know whatever scare me. It's just something that I'm not
really fully comfortable with because I'd rather just bring somebody,
bring my AirPod so Johnathan, my best friend, will be
in my ear.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Or go to the bar, like you know, why are
people so afraid to be alone?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
I don't understand it. It's like a real thing. It
really is. And I do think that. I don't know
if I think there are certainly people who are afraid
to be with people, But I think that the number
of people who are my contention is the number of
people who are afraid to be alone far far out
weighs the number of people who are afraid to be
with people. I agree, And I don't know why, Like,

(03:57):
why can't people just sit with their thoughts hold on?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
And I didn't say all that I'm okay being alone,
but if.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
You're alone, it's like there's no one to distract you
from whatever's in your head. I have things playing. I
don't want to get my thoughts, but I.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Can be alone, you guys, I know, but my thoughts
are scary, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
So wow, what do you think is? We're on this brain?
I mean, come on. I bring all this up because
I think there's a restaurant in Spain that's making this
all worse. Yes, but they're making it all worse. Instead
of leaving the other seat empty, if you go into
this restaurant in Spain by yourself, they put up a
cardboard divider so it supposedly looks less obvious that someone's

(04:37):
by themselves. Okay, well soon I see this production, this
cardboard divider. It's like, look at that loser, and not
only that, but a waiter than he's seen in a
video placing a giant stuffed Teddy Bear in the seat
opposite the solo diner. People thought this was insulting and
made solo diners feel worse, not better. Critics of eating
alone is normal and doesn't need to be hidden. So

(04:58):
if I go to this restaurant in Spain by myself
and I'm like table for one, they'll be like, oh,
bring it out, and now comes the divider, and out
comes the teddy bear and the inflatable or whatever. The
blow up dolls sit right across from me, and it's like,
look at this loser. See that's a spectacle. Look at
this loser. But if I'm bear by myself, just going
about my day, like you know, carrying myself with confidence,

(05:20):
I chose to be here by myself. I don't care.
I'm not missing out, then I don't think that anyone
should be looking differently at it.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
They're projecting their feelings onto the diner. Thank you, you know,
saying like we think it's you want this, but really
it's like.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know, it's like, no, no shits just shunned this man.
She he's in shame. He's sitting alone in shop. Make
sure you block him from his shame. Help this loser.
No one right, no one loves this man. Look he
can't even get anybody to go I eat with him.
Look at it. We need like a bottle girl sign too.
That just says a loser. You know, yes, cancling around
you the whole time. You know, I don't. I don't
think that they're helping. They're helping. Someone said, doesn't Fred

(05:56):
not like to go to movies by himself? I think
it's less about going to the movie by myself and
more about I can't remember the last time that I
was super pumped to see a movie.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I'm going by myself Friday to see the Life of
a show Girl.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, I mean, and you'll be in good company, so
it'll be fine. But because I mean, that's like a
very targeted group of people that will we're allowed to
sing a day, right, It's like you want to come
a movie concert. I got a thing, I gotta thing,
come on, we'll I have a very sure it's trip
planned to the Southern Illinois Suluki's football game in Krtlondalla. Yeah.

(06:31):
Actually the only place I coul get tickets to Life
of a Sugarl was in Cartlondlla because you didn't because
you didn't explain it to me. So now I have
to fly down to my own and I have to
go there. I had to go wait. No, I have
to go wait line to get the album there. I
figured the target there. I can get all thirteen colors
Target while you're there, seach album like twenty bucks or something.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
The CDs are like thirteen or fourteen dollars, like twenty
five thirty bucks.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
And the CDs different colors too. I think there are
different versions of the CDs. Yeah different Wow. So for
the discount prize of one hundred and fifty bucks, I
can have the same album thirteen times. Yes. Yeah, God,
she hates you.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
She's like the Zodiac Killer, like she's already capitalizing things.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
She hates you. I'm sorry, she hates your fans. Friend
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